Howard A. Lewis is the former National Program Manager of the Engineering and Valuation Programs at the IRS, where he served for over 32 years. He also served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Appraisers and ISBA. He is currently a Director of ISBA and a consultant with alliantgroup, a Houston company specializing in R&D tax credits for federal and state tax purposes.

Howard has eight children and, at the latest count, 14 grandchildren. He and his wife live in Hollywood, Florida, with their dog, Sheela.

John LaRosa is the founder and Research Director of Marketdata LLC, a Tampa, FL-based market research firm operating for 45 years. He has an MBA in Marketing and B.S I  Education. Prior to running Marketdata in 1987, he worked for 10 years for a market research firm, a laboratory instruments distributor, a paper industry trade association, and a high technology filtration products manufacturer. Mr. LaRosa has authored more than 300 market and industry studies, with a specialty tracking service sectors. He also performs business coaching and marketing consulting.

Howard A. Lewis is the former National Program Manager of the Engineering and Valuation Programs at the IRS, where he served for over 32 years. He also served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Appraisers and ISBA. He is currently a Director of ISBA and a consultant with alliantgroup, a Houston company specializing in R&D tax credits for federal and state tax purposes.

Howard has eight children and, at the latest count, 14 grandchildren. He and his wife live in Hollywood, Florida, with their dog, Sheela.

Mr. Rudich's primary area of expertise is in the valuation of closely held businesses, litigation support services, and machinery and equipment appraisals. Mr. Rudich performs the following valuation services: scrutiny and analysis of an opposing business valuation, preparation of deposition questions, gift and estate tax related issues, marital dissolutions, pricing of transactions and structuring analysis including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions of business property, going concern opinions, dissenting shareholder issues and business loss quantification analysis. Mr. Rudich has prepared many business valuations and has testified in court cases, and depositions involving valuation of closely held businesses. He has been admitted as an expert witness in cases involving business valuations, divorce proceedings and bankruptcies.

Howard A. Lewis is the former National Program Manager of the Engineering and Valuation Programs at the IRS, where he served for over 32 years. He also served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Appraisers and ISBA. He is currently a Director of ISBA and a consultant with alliantgroup, a Houston company specializing in R&D tax credits for federal and state tax purposes.

Howard has eight children and, at the latest count, 14 grandchildren. He and his wife live in Hollywood, Florida, with their dog, Sheela.

Denise is the managing partner at Stewart, Hurst, French & Dodson (SHFD) Forensics and has 28 years of professional financial experience.

She is an IRS Enrolled Agent (EA), a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF), a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), and holds the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC) designation. She is an Investment Advisor Representative and a Collaborative Law Financial Expert.

Denise has provided financial expertise on hundreds of cases throughout Montgomery County, Harris County, Fort Bend County, Galveston County, Hays County, McLennan County and Travis County. She has testified in Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend and McLennan Counties. She provides characterization and separate property tracing services, business valuation expertise and general financial expert services for family law attorneys.

Scott Lewis is currently a Senior Systems Engineer with Pure Storage, a Gartner “Magic Quadrant” leader in both Primary Storage and Distributed File Systems & Object Storage focusing on State, Local and Higher Education customers. In his capacity, he advises customers on managing enterprise data storage, Business Continuity,  Disaster Recovery and Modern Data Protection (including recovery from Ransomware attacks by domestic and foreign entities.)

Prior to joining Pure Storage, he worked at other leading technology companies including Cisco Systems, Dell EMC, and Nutanix. Prior to joining the manufacturing side of the technology industry he spent many years as an Infrastructure Engineer and Architect for companies including Goldman Sachs, Constellation Financial Management, MEDNAX, Interim HealthCare and JM Family. He is presently based in North Georgia with his family.

Howard A. Lewis is the former National Program Manager of the Engineering and Valuation Programs at the IRS, where he served for over 32 years. He also served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Appraisers and ISBA. He is currently a Director of ISBA and a consultant with alliantgroup, a Houston company specializing in R&D tax credits for federal and state tax purposes.

Howard has eight children and, at the latest count, 14 grandchildren. He and his wife live in Hollywood, Florida, with their dog, Sheela.

Philip Dellamedaglia, SRA, AI-RRS, ASA, CMEA, is a seasoned appraiser who started in residential appraising. He obtained his certification in 1994.  Phil graduated from Clarion University, Magna Cum Laude, in 1992 with a degree in Business Administration.  After working as an independent contractor for many years, running his own appraisal firm, Phil began working for Northwest Bank in 2012.  

Currently, Phil uses is abilities as an appraiser and his skill set in analytics to provide residential appraising oversight, alternate valuation testing and modeling for automated valuation models, and oversight for all machinery and equipment and business valuations.  For business valuations, Phil is responsible for all engagements, reviews, and sign-off for all valuation reports.  For machinery & equipment, Phil is responsible for all engagements, reviews and sign-offs, as well as performing internal valuations for lending and portfolio management.

Tamir is the Founder-CEO of equitest.net, an AI-Powered Business valuation software, and one of the founders of Nezikist.co.il, a SAAS for tort lawyers. Tamir also engaged in writing opinions on economic and financial issues and, in his spare time, lectures in academic institutions in finance.